The Republican journal., 1887-03-31
The Woman's Column.

There are Go,O0C women farmers in Ireland.
\ half-century ago in Turkey it was con>il-
cred shame for woman to read. To-day
two schools in Con>tantinopie have been estal-
llshed by the Sultan himself.
The WaIdensians, at the General Conference
at Florence, Italy, have decreed that hereafter
women members shall be allowed to vote. but
not to speak nj church meetings.
Mrs. NJ. 5. Dureli, wife of Judge L. II. Dur
ell, and Miss "A. l.. Gebhard have been award
ed a medal from the American Institute for Il
patented attachment for r-eatin. to steam
radiators.
Women constitute two-thirl> of our church
members and only onc-iifth of our criminals,
Yet there are still people who say that woman
suffrage would strengthen the political power
of vice and crime.
Let Us be honest and admit what we all know,
that the real reason why the right of suffrage
Is denied to women is because there is lust trace
enough OF ancient barbarism lingering in our
civilization to bar them out. Hon. John II.
Long.
We need the participation of woman in the
ballot-boN. 1t Is idle to fear that She will meet
with disrespect or Insult at the polls. Let her
walk up firmly and modc>tly to deposit her
vote, and If anyone ventures to modest her. the
crowd will swallow him up as the whale swat
lowed Jonah. Henry Ward Beechcr
There is neither jew nor Greek. there is
neither bond nor free. there is neither male nor
female, for We are all one in Christ Jesus"
Our children wi be as much a>tonished that
We could hold to the divine subOrdnatiop of
women in the face Of this last clause. AS we are
now astonished that Shareholder, and Jews
could hold to the divncly-orlained >ubortlina-
ton of the African and other races in the face
Of the first two clauses. [Rev.J. W. Bash
ford.
Woman has won by her work and faith what
came to men without their winning-a right to
the ballot. Is there anything that can suffer by
S'lch concession: Would the press break
down While it printed the ballots that w o,lal's
hand might cast: Would the ballot when drop
ped INTO the box explode like a charge of dyn-
annie! Some things-such as the nomination of
incorporate and incompetent men-would be
exploded as though a mine of nitro-glvccrine
had been isnitcd. Bishop Hurst.
Woman needs the ballot to protect that which
most men opposed to universal suffrage are so
anxious to emphasize as her especial sphere, the
nome. she needs to protect her husband. and
her brothers, and SONS. against the assaults of
the drnk-nnallla. She needs to guard her child
rem against the temptations of vice in literature
and art. Never tell HE that women do not
need the ballot because they are 50 well cher
iShed and protected already. very much fear
people i'll this world can dispense with any etlcc-
1--WE weapon against wrong. [l'rof. w. ii. Car
ruth.
Henry George, in a recent number of his pa-
per, the Standard, says, in reply to man who
objected to the woman's rights plank i'm :he
platform Of the United Labor party:
The natural right of a woman to vote is lust
as clear as that of man, and rests on the sane
ground. Since she is called OH to obey the
laws, she ought to have a voice in making them:
and the assumption that she is not fit to vote
is no better reason for denying her that right
than was the similar assumption which has
been urged against every extension of the fran
chlse to unfranchised men. And whether men
like or do not like the imputation that they are
incapable OF framing proper laws without the
ald OF women, their success in maxim. laws has
certainly not been so great as to give them a
reason Tor dlsdaining Womeu's aid. In fact
the botch that men have made of the business
OF making laws ought, it seems to us, to lead
them to ask them whether the finer and quick
er intultiOns and more delicate sensibilities of
women are not as much needed in the manage
ment OF public affairs they are in the affairs
OF the family. Not only are women superior
10 men III what our correspondent considers
woman's sphere, but they often bring to affairs
regarded As peculiarly belonging to men an in
valuable counsellors of men. The man who
scOrns the advice of women is anytbin. but n
wise man. And seeing that mankind is COM
posed of men and women. and that the two
SEXES are the natural compliments of each 9TH
er. is not the leaving of what concerns both en-
tirely to one sex, very much like the attempt of
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